All these all just Whisper wrappers? I don't get it, the underlying model still isn't as good as paid custom models from companies, is there an actual open source / weights alternative to Whisper for speech to text? I know only of Parakeet.

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sa-code 6 days ago | parent [-]

Voxtral mini is a bit bigger but their mixed language demos looked super impressive https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral

	▲	braden-w 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		We like Whisper because it's open-source :) but we also support OpenAI 4o-transcribe/ElevenLabs/Deepgram APIs that all use non-Whisper models (presumedly) under the hood. Speaches also supports other models that are not Whisper. Hopefully adding Parakeet support later too!